Chapter no 8
CHAPTER 8 Tamlin paced in front of the hearth in his study, every turn as sharp as a blade. “They are our allies,” he growled at me, at Lucien, both of us seated in armchairs flanking the mantel. “They’re monsters,” I countered. “They butchered three innocents.” “And you should have left it alone for me […]
Chapter no 7
CHAPTER 7 Brannagh and Dagdan looked like they’d just found second breakfast waiting for them. Jurian had his sword out, the two young women and one young man gaping between him and the others. Then at us, their eyes widening further as they noted Lucien’s cruel beauty. They dropped to their knees. “Masters and Mistresses,” […]
Chapter no 6
CHAPTER 6 A set of keys to the estate gates had gone missing. But after last night’s incident, Tamlin didn’t appear to care. Breakfast was silent, the Hybern royals sullen at being kept waiting so long to see the second cleft in the wall, and Jurian, for once, too tired to do anything but shovel […]
Chapter no 5
CHAPTER 5 I crawled back to the manor two hours after midnight, too exhausted to last until dawn. Especially when I noted the way Tamlin looked at me, remembering that dawn last year when he’d led me away and kissed me as the sun rose. I asked Lucien to escort me, and he’d been more […]
Chapter no 4
CHAPTER 4 Summer Solstice was exactly as I had remembered: streamers and ribbons and garlands of flowers everywhere, casks of ale and wine hauled out to the foothills surrounding the estate, High Fae and lesser faeries alike flocking to the celebrations. But what had not existed here a year ago was Ianthe. The celebrating would […]
Chapter no 3
CHAPTER 3 The spring woods fell silent as we rode between the budding trees, birds and small furred beasts having darted for cover long before we passed. Not from me, or Lucien, or the three sentries trailing a respectful distance behind. But from Jurian and the two Hybern commanders who rode in the center of […]
Chapter no 2
CHAPTER 2 I’d barely heard a whisper of Jurian these past weeks—hadn’t seen the resurrected human commander since that night in Hybern. Jurian had been reborn through the Cauldron using the hideous remnants of him that Amarantha had hoarded as trophies for five hundred years, his soul trapped and aware within his own magically preserved […]
Chapter no 1
CHAPTER 1 Feyre The painting was a lie. A bright, pretty lie, bursting with pale pink blooms and fat beams of sunshine. I’d begun it yesterday, an idle study of the rose garden lurking beyond the open windows of the studio. Through the tangle of thorns and satiny leaves, the brighter green of the hills […]
Chapter no 46
Pekka Rollins tucked a wad of jurda into his cheek and leaned back in his chair to survey the raggedy crew Doughty had brought to his office. Rollins lived above the Emerald Palace in a grand suite of rooms, every inch of them covered in gilt and green velvet. He loved flash – in his […]
Chapter no 45
“ The deal is the deal, Van Eck,” Kaz said over the sounds of the growing storm. “If the Merchant Council fails to honour its end of this bargain, no one from the Barrel will ever traffic with any of you again. Your word will be meaningless.” “That would be a problem, Mister Brekker, if […]